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Petition subject: Case for relief from judicial cruelty

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11665840

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Goldsmith F. Bailey, Worcester; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Aaron A. Bradley

Actions taken on dates: 1860-01-30,1860-01-31

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 30, 1860 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 31, 1860 and concurred

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: petitioner, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: hard, painful and cruel judicial treatment, contrary to the constitution and laws, present and pass good moral character to practice law, right has been denied him in all courts of law and under false pretense, destroyed his business and character without any trial by jury or the violation of any law, without due process of law, hard and oppressive, [Information from the judicial archivist: removed from the bar at the Suffolk County Civil Court; he was an attorney for the Suffolk Superior Court, but not in bar admissions? Eventually became a very prominent politician in Georgia, Reconstruction era, can find more information in judicial archives using his birth place and age]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1861, leave to withdraw

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.